giovanni 9acaf68756 README fixes, make anacrontab(5) more similar to crontab(5)
initial diff from Andreas Kusalananda Kahari with some tweaks
2017-03-29 13:17:38 +00:00

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$OpenBSD: README,v 1.4 2017/03/29 13:17:38 giovanni Exp $
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| Running ${FULLPKGNAME} on OpenBSD
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To start using anacron:
Create the file ${SYSCONFDIR}/anacrontab (see anacrontab(5) for
information about its format).
The following is a simple example which runs the standard
OpenBSD daily, weekly, and monthly scripts:
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# ${SYSCONFDIR}/anacrontab example
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
HOME=/var/log
# format: period delay job-identifier command
1 5 cron.daily /bin/sh /etc/daily
7 10 cron.weekly /bin/sh /etc/weekly
30 15 cron.monthly /bin/sh /etc/monthly
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Comment out the invocation of the corresponding jobs in root's crontab.
If your machine is left running for more than 24h at a time, you
might also want to invoke anacron from an early morning cron job.
To run anacron(8) at boot time, add the following to root's crontab(5):
@reboot ${PREFIX}/sbin/anacron -ds